HolyCoast.com: Gimme That Old Green Religion

I have no problem with programs that teach kids they shouldn't litter and they should be responsible citizens when it comes to the environment. However, when you start telling kids that if they live a certain approved way they can save the earth or failure to do so will kill the polar bears, you've crossed the line from responsible ecology to green religion. Science simply does not back up the wild claims these programs seek to teach our kids. It is becoming a religion for those who have no other god.

Avoid strong secondary carbon markets

In solving the climate crisis we need to avoid creating the type of large secondary emissions trading market Kyoto did. Large secondary emission markets constitute a whole new sector with strong incentives that conflict with a really large drop in emissions. Maybe carbon traders are so noble and dedicated to saving the planet that financial self-interest won’t influence them. But, if your view of human nature is that incentives matter, then a strong secondary market creates a group of people with the wrong ones. If incentives matter, then a secondary carbon market runs a real risk of becoming the new sub-prime.

Has Michael Phelps been sharing?: Over Seventy of Canada’s Top Athletes Call for Carbon Neutral 2010 Olympics

February 5, 2009 Vancouver—More than 70 of Canada’s top Olympic and national team athletes are calling on the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to make the 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral.

Taking a stick to Mann | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If Mann sees criticism as “vindication”, isn’t he also likely to see disproof as proof, cold as warm, fiction as fact?

globeandmail.com: How climate-change money went down the policy drain

During the 2006 campaign, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper stood in front of a bus in Vancouver for one of those photo-ops that television networks find irresistible.

There, he announced a policy to combat climate change: a tax credit for those with public transit passes. More people riding public transit would mean fewer people using cars, which, in turn, would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, he declared.

It was a farcical policy, not to put too fine a point on the matter. It was estimated that about 95 to 97 per cent of those receiving the new subsidy were riding public transit anyway. There would be no major shift from cars to buses. The money would, quite literally, go down the policy drain, which is of course exactly what happened. As a climate-change policy, it was among the least effective policies imaginable.

Daily Referendum: Poll: What kind of Tory are you? part 2

What kind of Tory are you?

A) Are you for an English Parliament (only)?

B) Are you a Climate Change Sceptic (only)?

C) Are you against the Lisbon Treaty (only)?

Results here.

Gavin’s Doubletalk « The Air Vent

I’m sick to death of this garbage and I will not stop until these bastards are honest. You wait when you see the code finally released. It ain’t gonna be a least squares fit. The total text files are probably less than 10Kb, sitting on someones computer so pretending it is too difficult is well BOVINE SCATOLOGY. LET”S SEE EM.

Twitter / Chris Gould

With all the snow this week, spent sometime reading up on global warming. Now pretty convinced it just doesn't make sense!

Shopfloor » Blog Archive » In Oregon: Killing the Economy, One Green Law at a Time

Putting our legislators in charge of what equipment should be fitted to our cars doesn’t strike us as the brightest idea.

YID With LID: Lies, Damned Lies and Glo-BULL Warming Science.

The Crazies of the Church of Global Warming has a philosophy, "If God deals you bad numbers--fudge them."

THE OBAMANISTA REGIME...

On 5 February 2009, Obama ordered the pilot of Air Force One to fly him a mere 37 minutes to a retreat in Virginia to hobnob with his fellow Democrats. He refused to take Marine One or the presidential limo to save fuel and money and reduce air pollution, which he says causes global warming.

Bravo, Kelly Wendeln

Kelly Wendeln speaks to the members of the Wichita City Council about global warming on February 3, 2009.

Odd Claim at Prometheus » The Collapse of Climate Policy and the Sustainability of Climate Science

Has the acceptance of the IPCC consensus changed among those who make decisions and advise them? Not at all.

Victor Davis Hanson: Works and Days » Our Brave New World

Be careful when one uses the superlative case—best, most, -est, etc.—or evokes end-of-the-world imagery. The new Secretary of Energy Chu, who seems eminently qualified and is a Nobel Prize Winner, strangely just declared, ‘We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California’, and went on to declare vineyards all but doomed here—apparently due to global warming....

Montana FWP study

In most of northwestern Montana, it’s probable that white-tailed deer are the major prey of wolves, yet the recent decline in deer numbers there is most likely due to poor fawn
survival and recruitment during the recent spate of severe winters-in combination with high antlerless harvests by hunters and wolf-predation rates.

Dalton Minimum Returns: "Another Dalton Minimum predicted!"

C. de Jager, S. Duhau: Forecasting the parameters of sunspot cycle 24 and beyond.

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, vol. 71 (2009), 239 – 245
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The first of these oscillations may even turn out to be as strongly negative as around 1810, in which case a short Grand Minimum similar to the Dalton one might develop.

And if you think we've got it bad... Check out our pictures of snow chaos around the world | Mail Online

A householder in Quebec, Canada, opened his back door to find a wall of snow outside...

Energy Examiner: Climate change idiocy cycles through the news

America's Energy Policy needs to be based on climate change science; by minimizing the data that we have accumulated simply because it is inconvenient to business as usual and the established marketplace is to relegate humanity to a path to destruction. For too long we have relied on fossil fuels to power our society; the facts are in, and it is time to change. Perhaps sometime in the near future, we will finally put to rest this blitz of idiocy that seeks to undermine our most reasonable scientific explanations for climate change and how to avert some of the worst-case scenarios associated with it.

Radio host Trent Loos: Don't grease the squeaky wheel

Enough of my ramblings about the nonsense; it appears that the scientists who actually know what is going on are fed up with Al Gore and his bag of lies. As Gore was testifying in front of the Senate committee, presenting misinformation about global warming, not one senator raised a single question to challenge the false information presented. Not one on either side of the aisle. So, have they done their homework or are they just going to buy into whatever the snake-oil salesman has to offer?

Melanie Phillips, Spectator: That famous consensus

Yet another example of the bogus ‘research’ masquerading as science that is used to reinforce the man-made global warming fraud. One of the difficulties the green zealots have had is that Antarctica has been not warming but cooling, with the extent of its ice reaching record levels.
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...the invention of data that does not exist and the obliteration of data that does exist has been precisely how the man-made global warming fraud has been perpetrated right from the get-go. The most egregious example of this was the piece of ‘research’ that underpinned the entire IPCC/Kyoto shebang from 2001 when it was published -- the so-called ‘hockey stick’ curve, which purported to show a vertiginous and unprecedented rise in global temperature in the 20th century.

The problem with pegging such a rise to the evils of industrialisation had always been the Medieval Warm Period, during which global temperatures were warmer than in modern times. So the ‘hockey stick’ study dealt with that by simply managing to airbrush out the Medieval Warm Period and its subsequent corrective Little Ice Age altogether. Some seven centuries of global history were simply excised from the data -- because an algorithm had been built into the computer programme which would have been created a ‘hockey stick’ curve whatever data were fed into it.

This shoddy research was subsequently torn apart so comprehensively that it has been called the most discredited study in the history of science (and has been quietly dropped by the IPCC, leaving man-made global warming theory with no more substance than the grin on the face of the Cheshire Cat....
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With their reputations thus disappearing faster than the snows of Kilimanjaro, the zealots have become hysterical. Mann attacks a prominent sceptic, Lawrence Solomon, for citing the scientists’ criticisms of the Antarctica study, and is in turn answered by Solomon -- an exchange reproduced in Canada’s Financial Post, for which Solomon writes, here and here. Mann repeatedly accuses Solomon of lying. In doing so, he has left himself dramatically exposed...

Ann tries to convince us that it's too warm up North

Last month the explorers went to Broughton Island in Canada for two weeks of pre-expedition training battling temperatures of -35C and days shrouded with 20 hours of darkness.

Mrs Daniels said: “Living, travelling and camping in the relentless cold can be pure hell.

“I had forgotten just how painful frozen fingers can be and how difficult it is to perform and survive at temperatures below -25C, where even the smallest of tasks take a mammoth amount of effort and concentration.

“We spent only three days in the cold but it was enough to remind us of what lay ahead and how important it is that we are all on top of our game.”

She also said any pain and discomfort on the trip would be “momentary” in the great scheme of things and added: “While I know we will experience a living nightmare, it will be a nightmare full of shared companionship, magical moments and this time with the added benefit of feeling I have made a small difference.

“Being able to help the scientific community to better understand the difficulties our planet is facing will be an achievement that will last a lifetime.”

B&Q pulls wind turbines from shelves | Business | guardian.co.uk

B&Q, the DIY chain, has withdrawn wind turbines from sale amid evidence they do not work as efficiently as had been thought. The £1,900 micro-turbines went on sale at the 320-store chain in October 2006. The company said they would generate up to 1kW of electricity, wired directly into a ring main to reduce the amount of power a household needed to buy.

But last month a survey by energy consultants Encraft warned that home turbines generated only a fraction of the energy promised by manufacturers, and in some cases used more electricity than they made.

The results of the study, which tested different types of turbines in different locations, showed the worst performing devices provided less energy than needed for a conventional lightbulb for an hour, or even to power the turbine's own electronics.

On average the turbines surveyed provided enough electricity to light an energy-efficient house, but this still only represented 5%-10% of the manufacturers' claims, said Encraft. B&Q said it had decided to withdraw the turbines as a result of the study and after "many months of customer feedback".

THEN THEY CAME FOR THE FLIERS. - Tangled Blog - A TANGLED WEB

...What an eco-fascist.

I am not surprised that Kensington socialists like Turner would like to limit the flights we take, all in the name of saving the planet, of course. This is all part of their totalitarian mindset. They want to watch us 24/7 with their network surveillance network, they want to control our incomes, they want to limit the size of our families, they want to remove every aspect of our Christian heritage, and of course they want to stop us leaving their laboratory. Time we threw these scum out of power. And of course as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, Turner has already proven to us just how competent he is as Britain has gone from faux boom to total bust under his watch.

US to lead, act aggressively on climate

MUNICH -- Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that the United States is prepared to lead by example and act aggressively on climate change.

"We are prepared to once again lead by example. America will act aggressively against climate change and in pursuit of energy security with like-minded nations," Biden said at the Munich Security Conference.

Pure rubbish from George Monbiot: Christopher Booker prize 2009 | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Believe it or not, this stylish trophy is made entirely of recycled materials!

Lovingly fashioned by master craftsmen in mid-Wales, it shows what can be done with items that are often treated as mere rubbish!

And this isn't all. I am suggesting that the winner of the Christopher Booker prize 2009 take the holiday of a lifetime: a one-way solo kayak trip to the North Pole. Following in the footsteps of the great Pen Hadow, the award winner could use the trip to see for him or herself the full extent of the Arctic ice melt.

At what point will Monbiot drop his "clever" kayaking to the North Pole schtick?

Recent events have seen the scare campaign over global warming descend to the level of a Monty Python sketch.

Much publicity was given, for instance, to Lewis Gordon Pugh, who set out to paddle a kayak to the Pole to demonstrate the vanishing of the Arctic ice. At 80.5 degrees north, still 600 miles short of his goal, he met with ice so thick that he and his fossil-fuelled support ship had to turn back.

Is Minnesota's Ethanol Push Good Policy or Just Politics? : NPR

Day to Day, June 2, 2005 · Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty plans to boost ethanol use by mandating that all gasoline sold in the state must contain 20 percent of the corn-based ethanol by 2013. Corn farmers love the plan, as do most environmentalists -- but critics wonder if it's good policy or just good politics.

Sept '05: Pawlenty pumps ethanol

St. Paul, Minn. — Minnesota was the first state to require that all gasoline sold in the state contain 10-percent ethanol. Montana and Hawaii have passed similar laws, although they haven't gone into effect yet.
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Pawlenty says ethanol has the added benefit of creating jobs in rural America. He says only people on the far margins of the political spectrum oppose ethanol.

State drive to 20% ethanol may stall - TwinCities.com

Gov. Tim Pawlenty's dream of raising Minnesota's ethanol mandate to 20 percent from 10 percent has hit an unexpected pothole.

Turns out, most gas pumps in Minnesota aren't certified to handle more than a 10 percent ethanol blend. Without that certification, it's virtually impossible for the state to increase Minnesota's ethanol mandate, which became law in 2005.

The ethanol industry received the news last month, when Underwriter Laboratories — the standards setter for industry — said that most service-station pumps aren't certified to dispense fuel levels above E-10, or a 10 percent ethanol blend. That's lower than ethanol boosters expected, and they've lashed out at "anti-ethanol bias" in the process.

Florida fish farms hurt by cold; plant crops mostly OK - South Florida - MiamiHerald.com

''We know there is going to be significant damage,'' McElroy said. ``Some estimates are that half the tropical fish may have succumbed to the cold -- thousands and thousands [of fish] -- certainly in the millions of dollars.''

Opposing Views: OPINION: Arkansas Commission Publishes Bogus Global Warming Report

The Science & Public Policy Institute says, “Although the legislation that created this commission directed it to study the science of global warming and consider the economic impact, unfortunately the commission did neither.

“In fact, in a 490 page report only four and one-half pages citing scarcely a dozen documents, none of which were peer-reviewed papers appearing in scientific journals, were presented as evidence of anthropogenic global warming.

“Rather than study the science a basic assumption was made by the consultant – and commissioners were presumed to agree with the premise – that activities of man contribute significantly to dangerous climate change.”

Green plan busted - The Sudbury Star - Ontario, CA

[Greg Weston] A damning report from Canada's environmental watchdog has confirmed everyone's worst suspicions that much of the federal government's plan to save the planet from global warming is hot air.

Politicians should stop wasting tax dollars on climate change insanity - The Daily Observer - Ontario, CA

In closing I believe it is time for our politicians to do some research and stop wasting our much needed tax dollars on this nonsense.

To believe they can stop climate change by raising taxes is pure insanity.

Mack Thrasher Laurentian Valley

Tim Ball: On Pravda’s New Ice Age Story

They also confirm Rutherford Rogers claim that, “We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” The lack of knowledge does not prevent governments forging ahead based on the completely unwarranted certainty of the IPCC and proponents of AGW.

YouTube - Glenn Beck and PETA: UN Says Meat Industry Is the Top Contributor to Global Warming, so Why Isn't Al Gore a Vegetarian?

On his FOX News show, Glenn Beck and PETA spokesman Matt Prescott discuss a recent UN study that found that the meat industry is the number 1 contributor of greenhouse gas emissions. So, why aren't people like Al Gore vegans or vegetarians? At least PETA members are practicing what they preach.

Just a thought, but maybe you should consider NOT BIKING in snowstorms and icy conditions?

UK - Government urged to show some grit

He wants to see extra help for cities like Cambridge, where dozens of cyclists and pedestrians have been hurt in accidents since snowstorms and icy conditions gripped the area.
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"Cambridgeshire has already spent more than £1 million on gritting this year. Due to the national shortage of rock salt, Cambridgeshire could not now grit all cycle paths across the county without a knock-on effect, meaning fewer roads would be gritted - a lose-lose situation.
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"We desperately want to grit more, including cycle paths, especially as we are now a cycle demonstration town authority."

A major row about gritting has erupted in Cambridge since the cold snap began.

City councillor Margaret Wright has claimed that many cyclists had suffered broken bones and other injuries after slipping on black ice on Riverside and in other locations.
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Cllr Sian Reid, who is the city council's executive member for climate change and growth, said: "Officials look at the five-day forecast during wintry weather to look at whether surface temperatures are unlikely to rise above freezing point for the period, at whether ice is forecast and conditions continue until after midday on any individual day - and whether there is enough salt to grit roadways.

"Only once these boxes have been ticked can the gritting of cycleways and footpaths be considered.
"This is absolute madness. We are putting people's safety at risk."

Remarkable public comment by fraudster/hockey team captain Michael E. Mann

Tabloid fossil-fuel shill - FP Comment

Fossil fuel industry shill Solomon continues to lie to public
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In his latest piece in the tabloid the National Post, Mr. Lawrence Solomon, a widely recognized purveyor of fossil fuel-funded disinformation, continues to use the forum provided to him by the Post to spread lies about scientists and scientific research in the area of global climate change.

Doing the bidding of the fossil fuel industry that financially supports his disinformation efforts, Mr. Lawrence repeatedly lies about my work, the work of my colleagues, the findings of the scientific community, and even the judgments of the world’s leading scientific organizations and journals.Mr Lawrence full well knows, for example, that my own work on paleoclimate reconstructions from more than a decade ago has been reproduced by many groups, and vindicated in a report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and even more recently, in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (for a lay-person’s guide to this report, you might check out my recent book Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming published by DK/Pearson). Mr. Lawrence disingenuously implies otherwise by citing a partisan attack several years ago by Joe Barton, the leading recipient of fossil fuel industry money in the U.S. House of Representatives (and who is often referred to as “smokey Joe Barton” for his support of industry’s right to pollute our environment).

Barton’s attacks were decried by newspapers editorials around the world, which likened it to a modern-day McCarthyism, using word’s like “witch hunt” and “inquisition.” The discredited Barton attacks were dismissed by organizations like the American Association of the Advancement of Science, which dismissed the attacks as an attempt to intimidate scientists whose findings may prove troublesome to industry special interests.

The National Academy of Sciences responded by performing a legitimate scientific review of my findings and similar work by others in the scientific community, and the academy endorsed or key findings, noting that a host of additional studies since have confirmed them. The media reported the NAS findings as “Science Panel Backs Study on Warming Climate” (New York Times), “Backing for Hockey Stick Graph (BBC), and so on.

Mr Solomon of course knows about all of this, but still chooses to mislead and lie to his readers. His statements about our current study in ‘Nature’ (which from his article you’d think I was the sole author -- in fact, I was only the 4th in a team of 6 co-authors) which studies the long-term warming of Antarctica and its causes, are unusually disingenuous and specious.

As described in detail elsewhere (e.g. the website “RealClimate.org” which I co-founded), our latest study is not contradicted by weather records at all, despite Mr. Solomon’s dishonest attempt to imply otherwise by misrepresenting and cherry-picking anecdotal observations.

Our study reproduces the well known cooling of the Antarctic interior which took place during the 1970s through 1990s (and is believed to be, as confirmed by our study, due to stratospheric ozone depletion which was greatest over that particular time interval). However, by combining the available temperature observations, we show that the longer-term pattern for Antarctica on the whole is one of warming, and this is consistent with the expected response to the long-term increase in greenhouse gas concentrations. Finally, Mr Lawrence goes on to attack the journal Nature.

Gee, who should we trust here? The most dishonest industry advocate in the climate change debate, or the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal. You be the judge.

How ironic that Mr Lawrence uses the word “shame” in his disinformation piece. For he is perhaps the most shameful and dishonest actors in the climate change disinformation machine. Some people indeed have no shame. Nonetheless, in Mr Solomon’s case, the judgment of history will be his condemnation.

(Solomon's response is here.)

As Mann goes completely unhinged, I'm reminded of fraudster Jeff Skilling completely losing his composure as Enron started to crumble in 2001

The court also heard a tape of the infamous April 2001 conference call in which Skilling lost his composure:

"You know, you are the only financial institution that can't produce a balance sheet or a cash flow statement with their earnings," [stock analyst Richard] Grubman said. Skilling, laughing, shot back, "Thank you very much, we appreciate it ... a$$hole."

New Zealand: Your Anglican church donations at work

Church Media Officer Lloyd Ashton says New Zealand Anglicans can set an example for the rest of the World, and agrees there is a need for moral leadership on the issue. Mr. Ashton also says Anglicans are already making headway. He says the Church has a social justice commissioner who is responsible for encouraging and coordinating activities related to climate issues.

Lawrence Solomon: Mann’s conclusions not to be believed - FP Comment

Mann-made science does not support the hypothesis that global warming is man-made
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A good scientist, like a good journalist, checks his facts, if for no other reason than to spare himself embarrassment and to immunize himself from charges that he’s casual with the truth, lazy or just plain dishonest. Michael Mann has not checked his facts.

Mann’s article has two main thrusts. First, he attempts to discredit me and others who have criticized his work. Then, he attempts to defend his reputation by claims that distinguished authorities, especially the National Academy of Sciences, have endorsed his hockey stick graph. His graph is an icon in the global warming debate: It convinced the press and the public that 1998 was the hottest year of the hottest decade of the hottest century of the last 1,000 years, creating the belief that Earth was changing dangerously for the worse.Let me deal in chronological order with Mann’s attempts to discredit those he perceives to be his critics.

American Thinker Blog: Another global warming ripoff

A portion of this settlement will certainly go to the "public interest" groups which brought this litigation, insuring they will continue to press for damages for "global warming".

Real money being paid out on account of make believe science where the real agenda is to force the end of fossil fuels, the only reliable source of energy in the face of the environmentalists' destruction of the nuclear power industry.

Public radio: It's all about political correctness and CO2 hysteria - Living on Earth: Gender and Climate Change

GELLERMAN: It's Living on Earth, I'm Bruce Gellerman.

Climate change is going to affect everyone, but not everyone is going to be affected equally. Women and the poor will suffer most as the intensity of hurricanes, floods, and droughts increases. That's according to Lorena Aguilar. She's the Senior Gender Advisor with the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The IUCN is the world's oldest and largest global environmental network and Ms. Aguilar joins me from her office in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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GELLERMAN: Well give me some examples. How is disruption of the climate a gender issue?

AGUILAR:... So many, many elements that when disaster strikes associated with climate change they're severely being affected.

GELLERMAN: Here in the United States we had Hurricane Katrina.

AGUILAR: Mmhmm.

GELLERMAN: Did gender play a role in the response or the effect of that hurricane here in the United States, a rich country?

AGUILAR: It did, especially in poor, Afro-American women the effect was a lot, lot harder and bigger than in other communities. They didn't have access to mobility to get away from the areas, they didn't know what to do, they hadn't participated in a lot of these processes, and also to recuperate for single mothers, for example, after Katrina has been extremely more difficult than other people in that area.

GELLERMAN: So in essence what you're seeing is that climate change magnifies the inequalities that exist now.

AGUILAR: Yes, and at the same time, the inequalities magnify the effects of climate change. So it's a two-way road in this respect.

Mind Petals: Ideas to change the world » Blog Archive » Global warming is NOT bullsh*t - It’s a FACT

The truth is, there isn’t anything to discuss anymore. Global warming is here, its human made, and the worlds governments need to do their part to curtail it, or else!

The first clue that it’s real is that the current Presidential administration believes it to be so. Think about this, when our president is being advised by some of the greatest scientific minds of our time—Steven Chu, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco, environmentalists all-and they tell him based on facts and figures that Global Warming is real, what’s not to believe? That would be akin to telling BMW that they don’t know a thing about making cars! Say what?

On the Broad Shoulders of Michael Steele I Rest This New Republican Agenda « FOX Forum

Conservation: Sell me on conserving energy to save resources and I’ll do it. Sell me on conserving energy to save money and I’ll do it. Sell me on conserving energy by lying to me about climate change and I won’t do it. Republican policy is to keep conservation issues separate from the climate change debate. We will conserve energy for the benefits it gives, but marginalize the hysterics of false global warming claimants.

Carbon Emissions, Prices Drop As Downturn Bites

Point Carbon’s EUA price forecast for 2009 now stands at €12/t, down some €10/t on the forecast published in November. However, it is likely that this figure will increase to €19/t in 2010 and that even by this summer prices will have stabilized. Point Carbon’s 2013 forecast remains at €42/t as current bearish and bullish long-term signals are likely to cancel one another out, according to the report.

BRACE FOR BUDGET IMPACT! COLLEGE APPROVES GLOBAL WARMING PLAN OVER MANAGEMENT OF BUDGET CRISIS

In an example of gross irresponsibility, at the Board meeting of January 21, 2009, the Pasadena junior college Board of Trustees had the willpower to pass a measure to develop a global warming action plan but failed to second a motion to develop a contingency plan for the inevitable curtailment of state funds facing the school due to the California budget crisis.

John Mashey: Co2 Hysteria Is Me

I think that at some point [...] the State Formerly Known as Oklahoma can be renamed The Senator Inhofe Memorial Dustbowl, as it returns ~permanently (in human terms) to the 1930s.

But this time, instead of being caused by (fixable) local dumb-farming/ranching practices, it will be the Northward migration of rain from the Hadley Cell effects, not easily fixed. Weather will vary randomly as always, but over time, there will be less water [...] I’d guess that farming/ranching will pretty much disappear, leaving mostly oil&gas, i.,e., a little more like Saudi Arabia. [...]

Oklahoma City might be renamed Morano City.

Obama’s Green Job Plan x 10 : The Inspired Economist

The effect of a massive $150 billion per year investment into the Green economy would result in 25 million new Green jobs. Jobs that strengthen the economy, environment, and society. Why settle for less?

Global warming coming ... eventually

Then, while stashing the non-perishable canned goods behind the furnace, filling the bathtub with fresh potable water and phoning the school to call the kids home, you arrived at the fifth paragraph of the story, in which it was further reported that the ice sheet collapse "is not imminent and may not occur for centuries."

This is what's known, in our business, as "burying the details," or "getting published."

Climate protestors threaten to shut down London’s carbon market - Carbon Offsets Daily

London, 5 February: After attracting thousands of climate protestors to the Kingsnorth power station and Heathrow airport, the Camp for Climate Action has turned its sights on leading carbon trading platform, the European Climate Exchange (ECX).

The campaign group has called for action on 1 April, a day ahead of the G20 summit in London, and is promising to shut down ECX to “highlight the link between the financial crisis and the climate crisis”. Its website urges protestors to meet outside ECX’s London office and “bring a pop-up tent, sleeping bag, wind turbine, mobile cinema, action plans and ideas … let’s imagine another world.”
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The group argues that carbon trading makes no contribution to the reductions needed in greenhouse gas emissions. It states: “In 2009, the Camp for Climate Action has decided that it is time to camp against the over-arching problem: absolute faith in unfettered markets and endless economic growth.”

Get out your carbon ration book - Carbon Offsets Daily

Leading proponent, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), which has developed CarbonDAQ (a virtual carbon trading site for personal allowances) reckons we’re on course for individual carbon budgets in 10 years’ time.

Yes, within a decade you could be making space in your wallet for another Nectar-style reward card that will clock every purchase, flight and lightbulb you buy and deduct them from your given carbon allowance. Or perhaps the chip will just be implanted in your forehead so you can run that through a head-height checkout in the fulfilment of the Orwellian nightmare that detractors envision.

OrthodoxNet.com Blog » Blog Archive » Obama’s ‘Extreme Team’ On Energy

One of them wanted to see Americans paying $8 a gallon for gasoline. Another tried to block access to domestic oil reserves that could one day exceed those in Saudi Arabia. Another thinks global warming is a dire crisis justifying a massive crackdown on energy — decades after saying the same thing about global cooling. Yet another had a position in the one of the world’s top socialist organizations.

Meet the Obama administration’s energy team.

Forget everything you’ve heard about the president’s moderate picks on the economy, national security and other issues. When it comes to energy policy and related environmental concerns, this group is off-the-charts extreme. Too bad the issue will be a critical one over the next few years.

20 Questions With... Cartoonist Mikhaela Reid -- In These Times

Q: What’s a mistake the mainstream media always makes that really gets under your skin?

A: I don’t know where to start! Lending legitimacy, weight, authority, balance, what-have-you, to whacked-out bigots and foaming-at-the-mouth right-wing extremists is always a big mistake. In other words, I really hate the way the mainstream media is prone to treating fundamental civil rights (like, say, LGBT rights) or agreed-upon scientific principles (climate change) as things that are up for debate and giving 50 percent face time to views that are 100 percent screwed up...

Less Carbon Allegedly Can Mean More Growth

THE HAGUE – Although the global recession is serious and its duration uncertain, the world must nevertheless continue to focus on the far-reaching threat of climate change. Indeed, if we are smart, public policy can serve the twin goals of stimulating growth and fighting global warming.
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Clearly, strapped treasuries will have difficulty providing funds. But emission-trading schemes can provide an alternative source of financing. For example, the EU recently set aside 300 million tradable emission allowances, to be awarded to innovative renewable energy projects or CO2 storage projects. Depending on the market price for a ton of CO2, that could mean about €6-9 billion in assistance to get such new technologies up to scale.

No one knows if the economic crisis will last months or years. But a good outcome in Copenhagen will serve the world for decades to come by sparking growth and taking steps to control greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell, chairs the Energy and Climate Change working group of the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Idaho senators remain opposed to stimulus plan | KTVB.COM | Idaho News

BOISE -- Idaho's two U.S. senators are still opposed to the current stimulus plan.

Sen. Jim Risch says at least 90 percent of the calls made to his office encourage him to vote "no" on the bill.

Risch says there's too much pork in the proposal, such as a plan to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to study global warming.

Could fluctuations in the Sun affect temperature on Earth?

Imagine the Earth right next to the Sun. First, you could forget about the snow and ice and global warming would take on a whole new meaning. If the Earth were a golf ball, the Sun would be 15 feet wide.

Global warming theory a hoax

[Royce Walker] The theory that carbon fuel gas emissions (carbon dioxide) are the cause of global warming is a hoax. The theory assumes that the dramatic increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the industrial revolution is causing global warming. For this theory to be true there must be a significant correlation. The current theory predicts temperature increases of tenths of a degree, ocean level rises of inches, and permanent ice decreases of relatively small per portions. The facts are that when the last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago the temperature rose several degrees, the ocean rose 300 feet, and the permanent ice sheet that was up to 10,000 feet thick that covered the majority of North America melted. The changes we are seeing today are miniscule compared to the dramatic changes that took place 10,000 years ago. If global warning is caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from burning fossil then there should have been dramatic increases in those levels 10,000 years ago. There is no evidence of such! It is totally unreasonable to assume a significant correlation. Today we are seeing a major increase in carbon dioxide levels and minor global warming. Ten thousand years ago there was no increase in carbon dioxide levels from burning carbon fuels and the global warming was major. It seems to me that it is obvious that there is not a significant correlation.

Cold weather claims life of homeless man -- South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

According to a 2000 study by the National Weather Service in Miami, more people have died from cold than from heat in Florida. From 1979 through 1997, the statewide study found, 113 people died from the cold, and 97 died from the heat.

Record Cold Weather in Western Cuba - Prensa Latina

Pinar del Río, Cuba, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) A significant drop in temperatures occurred today in the western province of Pinar del Rio where thermometers registered 4.9 degrees Celsius, record for the month of February.

Climate change requires a sense of urgency

WASHINGTON-- If climate change could be blamed on a gigantic alien spaceship orbiting our planet, then we might band together to save ourselves.
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Congress will begin the cap and trade debate later this year. Opposition will be fierce from industries that want to continue dumping their crud for free. Members of Congress who worry about adverse effects to jobs and industries in the regions of the country they represent will be, at the best, skeptical.

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Steven Chu: DOE Working to Spend Stimulus Money Faster

One of the big knocks against much of the proposed spending in the stimulus packages is that it will take years for the money to trickle into the economy. New energy secretary Steven Chu vows to make sure that doesn’t happen on his watch, and pledged to try to spend about half the department’s $35 billion to $40 billion in expected funding this year.

In an interview with Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Chu said the department’s legacy of conservative decision-making might have to be jettisoned to get that money out the door quickly.

Steig's "Corrections" « Climate Audit

In this period, I submit that it is clearly not the case that the "resulting differences in the reconstruction are too small to be discernable".

Heliogenic Climate Change: Insanity in Britain

A new runway at Heathrow would result in every other British airport having to abandon expansion plans to meet the Government’s climate change target, a study has suggested.

Complete barking madness from John Holdren, Obama's science advisor

At the 18:54 mark at the CBC "Climate Wars" podcast here [MP3], John Holdren says this:

...if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it's going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.

(By the way, at the 21:45 mark, alarmist Gwynne Dyer spends some time puzzling about those silly skeptics [especially American ones] who don't even understand that CO2 is going to kill us all.)

CBC Radio | Raving "Climate Wars" Insanity

Global warming is moving much more quickly than scientists thought it would. Even if the biggest current and prospective emitters - the United States, China and India - were to slam on the brakes today, the earth would continue to heat up for decades. At best, we may be able to slow things down and deal with the consequences, without social and political breakdown. Gwynne Dyer examines several radical short- and medium-term measures now being considered—all of them controversial.

Check out the podcast here [MP3]; listen particularly to the Co2-induced horrors of the year 2046 scenario that starts at about the 9:30 mark in the podcast.

That was fast - The National Newspaper

The worst snowfall for nearly two decades paralysed much of Britain, with buses pulled from the streets of London, flights delayed and cancelled at major airports and thousands of schools closed.

Up to 20cm of snow fell in London, with the worst hit areas of the south-east receiving over 30cm.

While Londoners pulled dusty toboggans from their cellars, it was estimated that the storm could have cost the economy £1 billion (Dh5.3 billion).

The record snowfall and cold snap came just days after environmentalists floated a fake iceberg down the Thames to highlight global warming.

The Thin Green Line : Friday Food For Thought

Reporters have the obligation to describe both sides of a controversy or debate—within reason. (Climate change is an example where controversy has been reported extensively and no longer needs to be included in every article about the subject.)

Book Review by Erica Jong - 'Somewhere Towards the End,' by Diana Athill - Review - NYTimes.com

The literature of death may have begun with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s classic “On Death and Dying” (1969)or with Judith Viorst’s “Necessary Losses” (1986), a book I buy for anyone who is grieving. Or the subject may linger in the air because of global warming and terrorism.

UN chief's TOP priority:  Spending trillions trying to tweak trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas

Asked how much of a priority the issue of climate change was for him and the UN, Mr. Ban, who received the Sustainable Development Leadership Award 2009 at the Delhi Sustainable Summit, responded that his “top priority and target” as UN Secretary-General was to have “a balanced, comprehensive, and effective” international agreement by the end of December this year in Copenhagen. As a regime, it must also be “ratifiable” as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

Emphasising that “India can play a very important, crucially important role,” Mr. Ban said “that’s why I am here…Everybody is looking at India, what India will do.”

Sea level rise may be worse than expected

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Long-term sea level increases that could have a devastating effect on southern Florida and highly populated coastal areas may be even larger than once thought, a report suggests.

Some studies have suggested that melting of ice in Antarctica and other areas could raise sea levels by 16 feet to 17 feet over the long run, a potential threat to coastal areas such as Washington, D.C., New York City and California.

But a report in Friday's edition of the journal Science warns that factors not previously considered could one day boost that increase to up to 21 feet in some areas.

Region Musicians Add Support to TriCounty Arts Council Showcase

A month-long exhibit of Mr. Breglia's perspective -- Global Warming: When Trees Talk -- opens at the TriCounty Arts Council's Gallery 107 in Cobleskill, NY, on Friday, February 6.

This game has green message for children-Delhi-Cities-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Learning about climate change has never been more fun. To catch them young, the green brigade dug into its bag of tricks and drew up a new one a computer and mobile phone game that instructs on climate change.

The name is Copenhagen Challenge. Developed by an Indian software company, the game requires the player to use clues in the game and his knowledge of environmental science to free a climate change scientist, Dr Kumar, from the clutches of an oil mafia in time for him to present the finds from his research.

 Governor Kulongoski Testifies In Support Of Cap And Trade Program

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski made a rare appearance before a Legislative committee Thursday.

He testified in support of a regional cap and trade program aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Governor told lawmakers that the state can’t afford to wait for Congress to enact a federal plan.

What Freedoms Remain? | Gather

President Obama is firmly on Al Gore's bandwagon and in the rush to "save the planet" liberals have all kinds of ideas to force us to "do the right thing". Washington bureaucrats already have too much input concerning what we drive. In California they wanted to determine at what temperature residents set their thermostats and then candidate Obama stated that we cannot expect to keep our houses at a comfortable level while the planet suffers. Do not think for a second that control over our energy consumption will not be on the mind of the president's "Global Warming Czar" every moment of every day and that many of those ideas will find willing supporters in Nancy Pelosi's house and Harry Reid's senate.

Antarctic Sea Ice Is Up Considerably (35%!) In January Compared to 1979

Antarctic sea ice extent and concentration for January 2009 were up significantly over 1980, 34.8% for ice extent & 22% for ice concentration. This continues a long trend of increases and before long the penguins will be able to walk to Brazil!

Prospects for climate/energy action, I | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist

With Al Franken's win this year there are 59 Dems in the Senate, but there are nowhere close to 59 reliable green votes. As John Broder's NYT story the other day made clear, there remains a sizeable bloc of Dems from Midwest/Southern manufacturing states that views climate policy as a threat. Jesse Jenkins calls it the "Technology 15." I prefer "Coal 15." Whatever you call them they're more than enough to bring Republicans to the 40 votes needed for a filibuster. It's not Republicans but these folks, led by the Dread Bs -- Bingaman, Baucus, Byrd, Bayh -- who will be the single largest obstacle to the passage of strong climate/energy legislation.

Your breath may soon power jets-Science-Health & Science-The Times of India

This is exciting, but don’t hold your breath. Researchers are putting into action a revolutionary technology that could turn your breath into biofuel.

The Liverpool John Lennon Airport, in the UK, will soon become the world’s first to try a revolutionary piece of technology that will recycle the breath of passengers into biofuel, reports Live Science.

The Ideology of Ecology and the Dictatorship of the Ecoliteriat

The Global Warming fraud is meant to demonize Western industry in general and greatly reduce the standard of living in Western nations with a series of restrictions on industry and basic daily life.

Prominent scientists who question the rush to a Global Warming consensus are smeared and accused of being cranks or secretly taking money from oil companies. Groups of “Concerned Scientists”, often operating outside their fields but inside a left wing political ideology, are thrown together demanding immediate government action to halt Global Warming. These are all hallmarks of the same process begin repeated.

Of course the inconvenient thing for Global Warming is that it is testable by simple observation (which outside of a nuclear war, Nuclear Winter was not) and when global warming activists find themselves freezing, faith in Al begins to collapse. So does any public consensus that there is a Global Warming crisis, no matter how many commercials about crying polar bears get run.

The irony of Global Warming is that it ignores the well known changes to global temperatures that are well documented over the centuries and even the millennia. In favor of assigning blame to human beings.

Writer defends his opinions and his right to have one

Paraphrased: "What scientific experience do former Czech president Vaclav Havel, Michael Crichton, etc. have?" Havel is a smart and savvy politician. In other words, he possesses the same qualifications to speak on global warming as Al Gore. Havel, as well as the other politicians I previously named, were mentioned because they have influence in changing public policy and because they are courageous to speak their minds on this subject. Michael Crichton, aside from being a successful novelist, received a degree in anthropology, a medical doctorate from Harvard, and a fellowship in biological studies. He has given public policy talks on environmental theory. The relevant credentials or job titles for the rest of the names were noted in my previous letter.
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Finally, Cordes invites me to keep my opinions to myself, as is common among global warming cultists. I decline that request, as that is what letters to the editor and opinion pages are for.

STEPHEN A. POSCHMANN

Environmental damage hurts children and elderly most

AUSTIN, Texas (ABP) -- Environmental degradation presents the greatest danger to the most vulnerable people --particularly children and the elderly, a Houston pediatrician recently told the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission’s annual conference.

Scientists have reached consensus about the reality of global warming, and children especially will bear the brunt of its effects, said Susan Pacheco, a faculty member of the pediatrics department at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

Who Pays the Bill for 'Controlling' Climate Change? ; So, You Thought $4-a-Gallon Gas Was Expensive? Wait Until You See What Your Power Bill Will Look Like.

[M.D. Harmon] If you, I and everybody else who pays for electricity, gas or any other kind of energy are about to see our bills go through the stratosphere to pay for someone else's faith-based initiative, we shouldn't take it quietly. So I won't.

Billions are going to be vacuumed out of consumers' wallets by "cap-and-trade" measures like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) that Maine and other Northeastern states have implemented, and by a bill in Congress that would impose a similar carbon- trading scheme nationwide.
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But majorities here and in Washington are using [climate model forecasts] to push expensive, economy-stalling nostrums. Shouldn't we be wary when politicians who want more control over all of society push a suspect theory giving them substantially more control over all of society?

And then send us the bill?

April '08: YouTube - Quick Recap of Gore's interview - Where's Gore getting his $300 million?!

Glenn Beck points out the hypocrisy of Gore's interview on Sixty minutes. Also included is the comments about people who disagree with AGW are like people who believe the earth is flat.

2 federal agencies settle global warming lawsuit (AP) | Yahoo! Green

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government has settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing and insuring projects overseas that may contribute to global warming.

Pro-Global Warming Study Receives Worldwide Headlines; Discovery of Error in Study Garners Op-Ed in One Paper | NewsBusters.org

When University of Washington Professor Eric Steig announced in a news conference and paper published in the January 22 edition of the journal Nature that he and several colleagues removed one of many thorns in the sides of climate alarmists -- in this case, evidence that Antarctica is cooling -- he received extensive worldwide attention in the mainstream press.

But when a noteworthy error was found in Stieg's research less than two weeks after it's publication, of the mainstream press, only an opinion column in the London Telegraph and a blog associated with the Australian Herald Sun carried the news.
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Polls show the American public is continuing to apply critical thinking when it comes to the question of human-caused global warming. Too bad the same can't be said for much of the mainstream press.

He probably still believes in the hockey stick: former goalie Ken Dryden weighs in

Until now, the climate change agenda has been driven by the European Union. Its 27 countries, in many ways, symbolize the world in microcosm — some big countries, some small, some rich and technologically cutting-edge, others, after decades under the Soviet fist, with energy-gobbling industrial-age equipment; yet all sharing the same landmass, all with the same collective problem. Together, they have showed the other 163 countries of the world what can be done.
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Climate change is the ultimate global issue. It is also a forever issue. Approaching it reluctantly, lurching at it during international conferences, without real domestic political debate, doesn’t work. Forever issues require engagement, the relentlessness of structures and trust — our trust of others, and others of us. It’s time for Canada to join the world — and Mr. Obama — in this important global project.
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– Ken Dryden is Liberal MP for York Centre in Toronto.

Ken Dryden: Information from Answers.com

Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Dryden, PC, MP (born August 8, 1947) is a Canadian politician, lawyer, businessman, author, and former NHL goaltender whose playing career won a place for him in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

When European governments say “climate change,” they mean “Russia”

In Europe, at least, “global warming” is a useful lie.

Lots of climate realists on the comment thread here: Over Half the Nation Thinks Media Are Exaggerating Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

It's nice to see America is waking up concerning this issue. Will Congress?

MPs reject stupid flight restrictions

Proposals to limit the number of flights departing from UK airports as part of a strategy to combat climate change have been rejected by the Liberal Democrats.

The suggestion, made by the chairman of the climate change committee, Lord Turner, is designed to form part of a series of measures to reduce the country's carbon emissions.

Specifically, the government's 'environment tsar' told the Commons audit committee that individuals would be given "personal flights limits".

Lord Turner said: "We will have to constrain demand in an absolute sense, with people not allowed to make as many journeys as they could in an unconstrained manner."

However, this initiative, which would reduce the number of foreign holidays passengers could take, was rejected by Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat transport spokesman.

He said: "There is an absolute need to recognise the serious climate change implications of aviation but 1940s-style rationing is not the way forward."

Rasmussen: 54% Say Media Hype Global Warming Dangers

Rasmussen Reports

More bad news for the media.

Fifty-four percent (54%) of U.S. voters say the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. Only 21% say the media present an accurate picture, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

Thirteen percent (13%) think the media make climate change appear to be better than it truly is. Twelve percent (12%) don’t have an opinion.
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Seventy-nine percent (79%) of GOP voters say the media paints a darker picture of global warming that the reality merits, and 63% of voters not affiliated with either party agree. Democrats, however, are much more closely divided: 27% say the media make it look worse than it is, 22% better, and 34% say they present an accurate picture.
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Men are more skeptical about media coverage of global warming than women. Younger voters question it more than their elders.

YouTube - Another moonbat politician: Congressman Mike Doyle discusses Global Warming Legislation February 5 2009

On February 5, 2009, Congressman Doyle provided a video statement that was featured at a Global Warming teach-at Carnegie Mellon University in in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A money quote (24 second mark): "Global warming is probably the biggest, most challenging public policy issue our country will face in the coming decades."

Another one, starting at the 55 second mark:"As far as I'm concerned, the debate about the science of global warming was over years ago...the US is by far the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases".

YouTube - My First Igloo

Just a short demonstration of how global warming has affected the UK

A Difference in Degree - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

I see a New York Times headline that “Eco-Arsonist Sentenced to Nearly 22 Years: U.S. District Judge Paul Maloney referred to Ms. Mason’s acts as an ‘abandonment of the marketplace of ideas.’"

Well, yes, you could say that. But you could also say that about the entire Green Inc. enterprise—which, as I detail in Red Hot Lies, is premised upon fear, threats, fraud, and deception to get their way. The difference between arson and global-warmists’ tactics of issuing death threats, revising the historical record, and causing automobile accidents is a difference not in kind, but in degree.

FOXNews.com - The Futility of Hybrid Cars - Opinion

Could plug-in hybrid cars actually increase greenhouse gas emissions? Is energy efficiency being oversold as a greenhouse gas reduction measure? A new report from the research arm of Congress raises troubling questions about the direction in which President Obama is taking us.

ABC's Sam Champion Touts Living With Filth, Worm Composting | NewsBusters.org

Extreme environmentalist and "Good Morning America" weatherman Sam Champion on Thursday admiringly recounted the story of a Los Angeles resident, Dave Chameides, who has been living with his garbage for the last year. The liberal meteorologist also extoled the benefits of Chameides' unorthodox methods of disposing waste, including the worm composting program he has set up in the basement of his home.

Right-Wing & Right Minded (Official Home Of Wednesday Hero): Al Gore's Propaganda Machine

Every drug dealer knows, get them early and you have a client for life. So does Gore.

NC Media Watch: Climate science data wars

Is this how NASA does science? Gavin Schmidt is one of the principle bloggers at Real Climate a blog often used to by liberals posting here to support their claims of run away global warming and the need for AB32 greenhouse gas reduction legislation. This just is another example why realclimate.org has no credibility at NC Media Watch.

Harry’s Circus: Gavin alleged to have written letters. | The Blackboard

This (evidently trivial) incident is now creating spin-off incidents.

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Forgotten treasure: Ticket to Heaven

One of the best movies I’ve seen has only occasionally become available for home viewing. Ticket to Heaven, a 1981 film based on the book Moonwebs: Journey into the mind of a cult, presented a chilling look into a social problem that hit its peak just prior to its release — religious cults. Now a DVD release of the film gives a new generation of viewers a look at that era...
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Nick Mancuso portrays David, a lost and somewhat dissolute soul, who stumbles into a Young Pioneers commune project of a self-proclaimed Jakartan Messiah. The film shows how the commune breaks David down, brainwashing him into the cult, with the help of Kim Catrall’s Ruthie, one of the true believers. They turn him into a fanatic who can no longer think for himself, trained to attempt suicide if apprehended or kidnapped. His friends and family, led by his closest friend Larry (Saul Rubinek), scheme to kidnap him and “deprogram” him from the cult.

Teach Your Children Well - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Al Gore made some news recently when he told a 3,000-attendee youth conference on global warming climate change that “There are some things about our world that you know that older people don’t know. . . . New knowledge, new understandings are much more widely available, sometimes to young people who are in school who aren’t weighed down with the old flawed assumptions of the past.” FOX News’s Glenn Beck played the audio earlier this week.

Hmm. I wonder why that is, Al? How did young people acquire this precious new knowledge? Perhaps because they’ve been inundated with climate propaganda through games, “tweaked” holiday celebrations, and their school curricula, all with the ready cooperation of teachers' unions and the teachers' colleges?

Woodstock for climate realists?: International Conference on Climate Change - 2008 and 2009 information

2008: Report #1 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph Bast - News Releases

Climate “alarmists,” Bast said, had already lost the scientific debate. “Winners don’t exaggerate. Winners don’t lie. Winners don’t appeal to fear or resort to ad hominem attacks,” Bast said. “As George Will recently wrote, ‘people only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues.’”

Report #2 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases

A steady stream of reporters and camera crews flowed through the registration and reception areas and utilized the three media suites set up for interviews. Media organizations represented at the day's events included ABC, CBS, CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among many others.

By the end of the day, more than a few speakers were hoarse from their repeated encounters with reporters, but all were delighted that they were getting their messages out. There is no question but that the media took note of this meeting--the largest gathering of global warming skeptics ever held.

Report #3 from the Global Warming Conference in New York City - by Joseph L. Bast - News Releases

The final day of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, hosted by The Heartland Institute and more than 50 cosponsors, began with a keynote presentation by the Hon. Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, who received a thunderous standing ovation from an international audience of some 500 scientists, economists, and other experts on global warming. It ended with withering criticism of the mainstream media's biased and alarmist coverage of the global warming issue by ABC News correspondent John Stossel.

The Heartland Institute - Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change

Audio, Video, PowerPoints, and PDFs

The Heartland Institute - Welcome to the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change

More than 70 of the world’s elite scientists specializing in climate issues will confront the subject of global warming at the second annual International Conference on Climate Change in New York City March 8-10, 2009.

UK Road Salt WILL run out - Comments from Piers Corbyn | CO2sceptics

Please read this informtion. It is now time to choose between the safety of your constituents and the new green religion for which there is no scientific basis - only evidence against.

Climate Alarmism Bullying: L’affaire Schmidt (new) … L’affaire Wigley (old) — MasterResource

“When will these guys learn that bullying and bluster is not going to win them any respect or friends?” Pielke blogged in response to Schmidt’s action.

Indeed. Pielke is a straight shooter who is very respected by the open-minded middle of the climate debate. The alarmists are showing desperation when they can least afford it.

Possible Link Between Dam and China Quake - NYTimes.com

BEIJING — Nearly nine months after a devastating earthquake in Sichuan Province, China, left 80,000 people dead or missing, a growing number of American and Chinese scientists are suggesting that the calamity was triggered by a four-year-old reservoir built close to the earthquake’s geological fault line.

Hovercrafts, Concordes, and Windmills - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yesterday brought a rewarding correspondence with colleagues on the absurdity of the rent-seekers’ line that unless we mandate (something uneconomical) here, why, our domestic producers will be left behind! I have addressed this before in the states before policymakers considering the Center for Climate Strategies/Rockefeller Brothers Foundation effort to install a patchwork of Kyoto-style regimes forcing federal action to bail them out, and on Planet Gore.

This particular exchange was prompted by a claim that “There’s only one American company, that’s General Electric, that is even in the world’s top 15 suppliers of wind turbines” (GE means the old Enron Wind that was one of the investments cobbled together as Enron created the Global Warming Industry in the 1990s, along with BP). The point was essentially that, unless we hobble ourselves with a national windmill mandate, why, we might get shut out of having a world-leading windmill manufacturer.

Green Collar Jobs – Not On This Planet » The Foundry

A key argument in favor of the stimulus package is that it contains several measures that are not only good for the environment but will create new jobs and boost the economy. From the people who make wind turbines and solar panels to those who install insulation in buildings or design electric cars, the predicted number of so-called green collar jobs to be created stretches into the hundreds of thousands. But reality says otherwise. In fact, everywhere that these green measures have been tried, unemployment has increased, not decreased. The same will happen across the U.S. if the stimulus package is enacted.

Take California, the state hyped by the proponents of green collar jobs as a model for the rest of the nation. This is a state that has already moved aggressively on several things in the stimulus package – tough energy efficiency measures to drive down consumption, alternative energy requirements, and legislation to fight global warming.

Governor Schwarzenegger and other green stimulus proponents have hyped these provisions as green in both the environmental and economic sense and thus a win-win for the state. However, notwithstanding questions about the supposed environmental benefits, it has become clear in recent months that California’s economy is nothing less than a basket case. The green stimulus measures are a contributor to the malaise.

YouTube - Alarmist Richard Alley Dances to Explain Ice Ages, CO2 and Global Warming

Penn State climate expert and glaciologist Richard Alley does a quirky dance to explain ice-age cycles, then shows how the natural warm and cool phases of climate help prove that more CO2 will warm the world in the long haul.

The money quote (at the 3:30 mark): "The change so far is very small, but it's far enough that we can validate our models". Alley goes on to argue that uncertainty in climate science is a justification for spending MORE money right now (trying to stabilize climate by tweaking trace amounts of natural atmospheric gas).

Note that hockey team captain Michael Mann is also from Penn State

On global warming, is Obama slowly losing his religion?

I listened to both parts of this speech, and I didn't hear a single word about global warming.  At the 5:25 mark of part 1, he tries to justify replacing "the federal fleet with hybrid cars", but he failed to even mention the part about allegedly saving the planet from greenhouse gases.

Has someone in his administration figured out that when Obama promotes CO2 hysteria, intelligent people roll their eyes?

YouTube - 1 of 2 Obama delivers fiery speech to Democrats on stimulus

Speaking to Democrats in Virginia, President Barack Obama delivered a fiery speech in support of the stimulus bill.

YouTube - 2 of 2 Obama delivers fiery speech to Democrats on stimulus

Jeremy Clarkson apologises for calling Gordon Brown a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot' - Telegraph

The outspoken presenter also continued his anti-green crusade, blaming this week's snow on "too many green people in the world not buying enough Range Rovers", thereby failing to speed up global warming. Of the Top Gear team he joked: "We don't have a carbon footprint. That's because we drive everywhere."

The Way Forward Adaptation

"Climate change poses at least as big a threat to the world as war…..we can combat it."
Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General.

AgWired » Blog Archives » Energy Secretary Wants Us To Be Very Afraid

I thought our new administration promised hope not fear. If this isn’t fear mongering then I don’t know what is. I personally don’t believe in man made global warming or that we can change natural climate change simply by making lifestyle changes. I do believe in climate change. We have these things called the seasons for one thing. I think we had an ice age once, actually more than one. I do believe that we should practice good environmental care and that farmers are some of the most environmentally friendly people on the planet. Air and water quality in big cities can be improved and renewable fuels is a good way to work on that besides relieving our dependence on foreign oil from countries that are not our friends. I think the bottom line is that we’ve got people in power now who have a goal of re-shaping society into their personal vision of it. Since the majority of Americans would never agree to it they have to have a very scared public in order to get their policies enacted and they have to push very quickly before people wise up.

One Citizen Speaking...: Global Warming: The Pretense of Knowledge

I honestly believe that the science is so unsettled as to preclude the necessity of public policies to alter that which may very well be unalterable. The simple fact that all agree that the historical record demonstrates that the rise in carbon dioxide lags the rise in the global mean temperature tends to rule out carbon dioxide as the cause of global climate change. However, it does not rule out that the rise of CO2 is associated with the warming of the oceans; giving rise to increasing carbon dioxide levels much in the same way a warm soda releases CO2 into the atmosphere. Based on the scenario of warming oceans, one might want to consider that our planet's path around the sun is the primary causal factor and that the moderation of CO2 will result in little or no effect on the real world’s global mean temperature.

Baltimore Weather Examiner: Someone tell the Florida Manatees about global warming

A very cold winter in Florida is affecting manatees and orange groves.

...This winter has been cold all the way down to Florida. Yesterday morning, 90% of the nation had temperatures dropping below freezing. However, this latest arctic air mass has made it all the way down to Florida. It's just the latest round of very cold pattern in Florida this winter.

American Thinker Blog: Pelosi's Prodigious Pig

One of Obama’s favorite words is “irreversible”. He used it yesterday to describe the dire economic catastrophe that will surely result if we don’t pass the Democrats’ $900 billion Porky bill. Amazingly, he used the same “irreversible” label when describing the consequences of global warming. This is a very effective scare tactic, as long as you don’t overdo it.

Yet another CO2-hysteric: Robert Sussman To Be EPA Senior Policy Counsel

Sussman’s work for the Center for American Progress highlighted that practical approach. He crafted recommendations for regulatory and funding mechanisms to spur the development of carbon capture and sequestration technology for coal plants, “to reconcile reliance on coal for electricity with the need to reduce the threat of global warming.”

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Exxon Mobil: You know what creates jobs? Oil Drilling.

Washington D.C. is full of talk about how to stimulate the economy – insulate houses, drop mortgage rates, build infrastructure. Exxon Mobil Corp. has its own plan: let us drill.

But if you're trying to conserve fuel, why are you racing?: Toyota dealers in Japan race hybrids in Prius Cup - AutoblogGreen

Unlike most racing series, the goal of the Prius Cup isn't to turn in fast lap times. Instead, the cars circle the track in agonizing fashion as they try and use as little fuel as possible. Once in the pits, though, the action picks up considerably as the teams compete to get their hybrids back on the track in as little time as possible. Sounds exciting! Well, not really, but we don't know of many other racing events where the winner scores nearly 70 mpg over the 20-lap event.

NC Media Watch: In a cyclical world, it is all about cycles

I am working on comparing the reconstructed PDO cycles from the late 1600 to 1900 with the reconstructed Sacramento river flow. I noted that the first half of the Dalton was during a warm phase the last half during a cold phase. More on this in a future post. What might be on California's weather patterns with cold PDO and a very quiet sun. If I were a farmer, especially a grape grower, I might be worried about the result of long cold periods on my crops. Crops such as grapes require a specific number of degree days for the fruit to develop the proper sugar level in grapes that produce great wines.

Investor's Business Daily -- War On Fossil Fuels

Energy: The new administration has wasted no time in reversing a decision by the Bush White House that let gas and oil companies explore for new resources. Keep this in mind the next time pump prices take off.

Investor's Business Daily -- Cap-And-Trade Will Hammer Consumers

At a time when proposals for higher taxes are politically unpopular, Congress is coming up with other strategies to raise revenues at the expense of the American public.

Obama on The Tyranny of Oil - Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Yeah, right. Captain Conservation was really worried about the “tyranny of oil” when he hopped in his helicopter to get to his jet to fly a measly 150 miles to attend spend-a-palooza.

Chairman Chu « The Air Vent

Public education used for the manipulation of the young minds. It’s real folks, this is really happening. I hope you’re paying attention.

While those of us who enjoy science endevor to understand the detail of global warming papers, the policy makers are utilizing it for the implementation of Chinese style socialism in America. Billions spent on overpriced energy which can do nothing for globlal warming or us. Energy not intended to help global warming but rather designed to further weaken the economy with the intent of pushing the people ever more into indentured servitude of the government. This is the goal of the politicians in power, the scientists are simply the excuse.

Groucho Hansen - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

That is to say, therefore, that distilled the exchange goes as follows:

Theon: as his supervisor I can tell you that he was never muzzled, has no scientific support for his claims and he embarassed NASA.

Hansen: why, that's outrageous...you were never my superior!

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon hails India's Climate Change Policy

New Delhi (24/7 News Network): UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon, who arrived in India yesterday, addressed the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit today. He hailed India's climate change policy and said that 2009 will be observed as "the year of climate change".

'Strong arm' tactics to get India to agree to strict emissions cuts criticised | Environment | guardian.co.uk

China and India signal opposition to binding limits on emissions as UN secretary general says developing world 'must do more'

Farmers Relax (a Little) After Cow Tax Scare - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

To ranchers, they were two of the most absurd and terrifying words in the English language: “cow tax.”

Last last year, rumors that the Environmental Protection Agency was considering a tax on methane in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused angst in the farming community.

Methane, which the E.P.A. considers over 20 times more potent as a heat-trapping greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, is emitted when a cows burp. The New York Farm Bureau calculated that such a tax could amount to $175 per dairy cow, and about half that for beef cattle.

The outrage was palpable.
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“A cow tax is clearly a bad idea and, if implemented, would have huge impacts on U.S. agriculture,” wrote Cynthia Cory, the director of environmental affairs for the California Farm Bureau Federation, in an article on the organization’s Web site this week. “But since no one proposed a cow tax, the question instead is: Should President Obama’s administration use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions?

“If the administration is listening,” Ms. Cory continued, “the answer is, ‘No.’”

BBC NEWS | UK | Snow brings yet another day of chaos

Hundreds of stranded motorists had to spend the night away from home
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Heavy snow has brought a fifth day of chaos to the UK, with severe weather warnings issued to much of the country.
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More than 3,000 schools have closed across southern England and Wales.

Bloomberg Supports, But Doesn’t Join, Emissions ‘Covenant’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

New York’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to issue a declaration on Tuesday offering his support for a European Union initiative binding participating cities to a 20 percent reduction in emissions by 2020 — though he won’t be committing his city to the target.